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“samantha newbery”

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  • Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland

    by Samantha Newbery ...
    By using informers to provide intelligence on terrorism, the security and intelligence agencies who handle them gain knowledge of their offences. Charges may then be brought against them, provided evidence supports this course of action. But if imprisoned, an informer no longer has access to the time-sensitive, potentially life-saving intelligence they once had. There is therefore a tension ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Interrogation, intelligence and security

    Controversial British Techniques

    by Samantha Newbery ...
    Interrogation, Intelligence and Security examines the origins and effects of a group of interrogation techniques known as the ‘five techniques’.Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use these controversial methods. Focusing on the British colony of Aden (1963–67), the height of ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland (1971), and the conflict in Iraq (2003), the book ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Why Spy?

    On the Art of Intelligence

    by Brian Stewart, Samantha Newbery ...
    Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few books currently available to those involved either as professionals or students in this area have been written by someone like the present author, who has practical experience both of field work and of the intelligence bureaucracy at home and abroad. It ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Agents of Influence

    Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA

    by Aaron Edwards ...
    Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles, they were ‘agents of influence’. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged from the shadows to tell their compelling stories. ... Read more

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  • A State in Denial:

    British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries

    by Margaret Urwin ...
    This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and intelligence services with loyalist paramilitaries of the UDA & UVF throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Covert British Army units, mass sectarian ... Read more

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  • Empire of Secrets

    British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire

    by Calder Walton ...
    The renowned espionage historian offers "a gripping account of British intelligence during the last days of empire" ( The Daily Telegraph).Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified records and hitherto overlooked personal papers, intelligence expert Calder Walton offers a compelling and authoritative history of Britain's espionage activities after World War II. A major addition to intelligence ... Read more

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  • The Intelligence War against the IRA

    by Thomas Leahy ...
    The exposure of two senior republicans as informers for British intelligence in 2005 led to a popular perception that the IRA had 'lost' the intelligence war and was pressurised into peace. In this first in-depth study across the entire conflict, Thomas Leahy re-evaluates the successes and failures of Britain's intelligence activities against the IRA, from the use of agents and informers to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • UDR: Declassified

    by Micheál Smith ...
    In UDR: Declassified, Micheál Smith reveals what the British establishment, the British government and its armed forces knew and had to say about the regiment in recently declassified files. From its formation in 1970 as a locally raised militia, the Ulster Defence Regiment developed into the largest regiment in the British Army. For unionists, service in the UDR was a noble act and often a family ... Read more

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  • Political Purgatory

    The Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New Ireland

    by Brian Rowan ...
    This is a book about political stasis; the purgatory that Stormont became, and the sins of that long standoff. The story begins in January 2017, with Martin McGuinness’s dramatic resignation as Deputy First Minister, and chronicles all the behind-the-scenes negotiations that ultimately resulted in the restoration of the Executive in January 2020, with the ‘New Decade, New Approach’ agreement. Then ... Read more

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  • Ten-Thirty-Three

    The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Killing Machine in Northern Ireland

    by Nicholas Davies ...
    This explosive book reveals the conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunman of the UDA who targeted and killed both Republican terrorists and ordinary Catholics.The secret partnership was sanctioned at the highest level of the British government and full details of planned operations, including killings, were passed directly to its Joint Intelligence Committee in London.Ten ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Flat Earth News

    An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

    by Nick Davies ...
    Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry.From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence agencies to plant fiction in its columns, to the newsroom that routinely rejected stories due to racial bias, to the ... Read more

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